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Scott E. Sonners

Examiner (ID: 70)

Most Active Art Unit
2613
Art Unit(s)
2628, 2613, 2678, 2617, 4175
Total Applications
452
Issued Applications
300
Pending Applications
39
Abandoned Applications
121

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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12/507006
Methods and systems for fractional level of detail assignment Jul 20, 2009 Issued
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12/505516
Apparatus and method for generating three-dimensional model data Jul 18, 2009 Issued
Array ( [id] => 9100731 [patent_doc_number] => 08564616 [patent_country] => US [patent_kind] => B1 [patent_issue_date] => 2013-10-22 [patent_title] => 'Cull before vertex attribute fetch and vertex lighting' [patent_app_type] => utility [patent_app_number] => 12/505402 [patent_app_country] => US [patent_app_date] => 2009-07-17 [patent_effective_date] => 0000-00-00 [patent_drawing_sheets_cnt] => 11 [patent_figures_cnt] => 11 [patent_no_of_words] => 12198 [patent_no_of_claims] => 20 [patent_no_of_ind_claims] => 2 [patent_words_short_claim] => 151 [patent_maintenance] => 1 [patent_no_of_assignments] => 0 [patent_current_assignee] =>[type] => patent [pdf_file] =>[firstpage_image] =>[orig_patent_app_number] => 12505402 [rel_patent_id] =>[rel_patent_doc_number] =>)
12/505402
Cull before vertex attribute fetch and vertex lighting Jul 16, 2009 Issued
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12/505398
Cull before vertex attribute fetch and vertex lighting Jul 16, 2009 Issued
Array ( [id] => 9984757 [patent_doc_number] => 09030479 [patent_country] => US [patent_kind] => B2 [patent_issue_date] => 2015-05-12 [patent_title] => 'System and method for motion editing multiple synchronized characters' [patent_app_type] => utility [patent_app_number] => 13/376781 [patent_app_country] => US [patent_app_date] => 2009-06-19 [patent_effective_date] => 0000-00-00 [patent_drawing_sheets_cnt] => 8 [patent_figures_cnt] => 8 [patent_no_of_words] => 8503 [patent_no_of_claims] => 16 [patent_no_of_ind_claims] => 1 [patent_words_short_claim] => 197 [patent_maintenance] => 1 [patent_no_of_assignments] => 0 [patent_current_assignee] =>[type] => patent [pdf_file] =>[firstpage_image] =>[orig_patent_app_number] => 13376781 [rel_patent_id] =>[rel_patent_doc_number] =>)
13/376781
System and method for motion editing multiple synchronized characters Jun 18, 2009 Issued
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13/000274
Dimension reducing visual representation method Jun 17, 2009 Issued
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12/999399
METHOD OF DECODING ON AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE Jun 17, 2009 Abandoned
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12/360838
Methods and systems for improving resource utilization by delaying rendering of three dimensional graphics Jan 26, 2009 Issued
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12/325956
SELECTIVE FILTERING OF USER INPUT DATA IN A MULTI-USER VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT Nov 30, 2008 Abandoned
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12/325898
Transfer of rigs with temporal coherence Nov 30, 2008 Issued
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12/324699
PARALLEL POISSON DISK SAMPLING Nov 25, 2008 Abandoned
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12/323432
Method and apparatus for calibrating a display-coupled color measuring device Nov 24, 2008 Issued
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12/271358
METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR COMBINED 4D PRESENTATION OF QUANTITATIVE REGIONAL PARAMETERS ON SURFACE RENDERING Nov 13, 2008 Abandoned
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12/271343
Systems and methods involving graphically displaying control systems Nov 13, 2008 Issued
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12/271509
Shallow bounding volume hierarchies for accelerated ray tracing Nov 13, 2008 Issued
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12/268906
IMAGING OF ANATOMICAL STRUCTURES Nov 10, 2008 Abandoned
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12/244710
System and method for transferring pre-computed Z-values between GPUS Oct 1, 2008 Issued
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12/125121
SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VISUALIZATION AND INTERACTION WITH SPATIAL OBJECTS May 21, 2008 Abandoned
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12/108987
Object size modifications based on avatar distance Apr 23, 2008 Issued
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12/108932
Monitoring user attention in a computer-simulated environment Apr 23, 2008 Issued
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